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Fotofestiwal Lodz in Lodz
Fotofestiwal is an international photography festival held every May in Lodz since 2001, one of the first dedicated photography events in Poland, using the city's post-industrial architecture as exhibition space for curated photographic themes. Running throughout May each year, it fills Lodz's post-industrial factories, tenements, and villas with curated exhibitions and a dense program of talks and workshops.
Fotofestiwal, formally the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, held its first full edition in 2002, following preparatory work in 2001 that placed it among the earliest dedicated photography events organized in Poland at a time when the country's photographic culture was still building independent institutions distinct from the state-run cultural bodies of the communist period.